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Including a rel=canonical link in your webpage is a strong hint to search engines your about preferred version to index among

www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/
I answered an interesting rel=canonical question over email today and thought I’d blog about it. If you’re not familiar with rel=canonical read these pages first. Then watch this video about rel=canonical vs. 301s, especially the second hal ...

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What is a canonical page? Why specify a canonical page? An article by Matt Cutts on rel="canoniocal" element / tag

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In a video released by Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, Matt said publishers who publish similar or duplicative stories on different URLs may use the rel=canonical tag to help consolidate the PageRank of the stories and avoid any issues ...

www.concept-br.de/blog/canonical-tag-for-joomla/
Joomla unfortunately has no built-in-function for setting the canonical tag. We have to get the right seo link from the menu items and set it manually.
We coded a small PHP script which uses the Joomla-API to get the seo link from the currently ...

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Hey Matt. I had a lingering question about using rel=canonical vs. 301 redirects. It takes longer for Google to find the rel=canonical pages but 301 redirects seem to lose impact (link juice) over time. Is there similar churn with rel=canonical? Sam Cr ...

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By adding the rel=canonical tag you inform the spiders which page is the main page if you have double content.

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Carpe diem on any duplicate content worries: we now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. If yo ...

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How the very useful rel=canonical tag solves many common SEO problems that exist around duplicate content issues.

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This article describes how you can use canonical URLs to improve link and ranking signals for content available through multiple URL structures or via syndication.